Sattler German immigrants
were the first to colonize permanently this area along the
Guadalupe River in the 1850s.

The dispersed rural
community was known at times as Marienthal, Walhalla and
Mountain Valley, with the name Sattler assigned when the
post office, first opened in 1856 at the Wilhelm Sattler
home, was more centrally located in 1880.

The Weil-Nowotny-Guenther
store, with its complex of buildings-post office, dance
hall, cotton gin and bowling alley-served as a gathering
place for farm and ranch families who lived in the area.

Construction of Canyon
Dam in the 1960s hastened the dispersal of the German
community, but the heritage of Sattler remains significant
in the History of Comal County. (2002)